Analysis of Masterpieces - Analysis of full-music 20th Century atonal pieces.
A-Natural Atonality - Claims that atonality is unnatural while tonality is acoustically and historically natural.
The Ancient Musical Modes - Ideas regarding the "classical modes" described by Plato and Aristotle.
Atonal Set Calculator - Interactive atonal set calculator for pitch class sets and twelve-tone rows. Enter one or two sets and find normal order, prime form, Forte number, interval vector, and symmetry.
Auto-Transposer - Transposes all twelve major keys of chord progressions.
A Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony - A concise explanation of the Gregorian and Renaissance modes and their development in the Common Practice era.
Bimodalism - A contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
Chaos Music Paper I: Aesthetic Evaluation - Essays explaining computer music theory providing detailed analysis.
Chordwizard: How Music Works - A concise summary of important concepts in music.
Creativelab - Visual representations of music expressed in terms of color. In English, Ukrainian and Russian.
Dolmetsch: Music Theory & History Online - Offers a musical dictionary, recorder lessons, instrument information and a composers listing.
Dynamic Spectrograms of Music - Provides a type of spectrogram suitable for understanding the structure of music.
eMusicTheory.com - Java applets designed to help students of music improve their basic music reading skills.
Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Music - A reference resource on music theory, covering in brief a vast array of topics.
Essentials of Music Theory - Summarizes entry-level music theory through advanced topics. Includes beginners' drills.
The Fugue - An outline of the fundamentals of a fugue based on Hugo Norden's "Foundation Studies in Fugue."
Fugue No. 17: A-Flat Major - Introduction to the essential concepts of Schenkerian analysis applied to the Ab Major fugue of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
Fugue Treatises, Analyses and Tools - Bibliography of fugue analysis research, writings and analysis.
Gems of Compositional Wisdom - Articles on advanced atonal and serial concepts.
Good Ear - Online ear training site.
Harmonic Bindings - A paper about the unification of Janecek's theory of imaginary tones with the two Risinger's principles of functional relations.
Harmony.org.uk - By Tom Sutcliffe. Aims to help students of music theory understand the role of chord progressions in musical structures. Site includes animated demos.
Interactive Circle of Fifths - A free music theory tool designed to help musicians interpret chord progressions, easily transpose music to a different key, compose new music, and understand key signatures, scales, and modes.
Interval and Chord Ear-Training - This site drills ear-training (aural skills), focusing on the aural recognition of musical sounds, including intervals and chords.
Modes and Scales in Indian Music - A historical look at concepts of Indian scales and modes comparing North and South Indian approaches.
Music Acoustics - The science of music. Explanations of how musical instruments work via waves and frequency modulation.
Music Theory - A guide to music theory that including chords, scales, music notation and other music theory topics. Has weblog format; includes links as well.
Music Theory - Covers intermediate and slightly advanced topics in tonal music theory.
Music Theory for the Short Attention Span - Essential music theory knowledge, briefly explained.
Music Theory Help Site - Intermediate music theory help covering basics through beginning formal analysis and counterpoint.
Music Theory Instruction - Online instruction for all musicians beginner or advanced. Covers scales, chordal theory, progression theory, modes and foreign scales.
The Music Theory Minute - Online music theory tutorials for beginning students.
Music Theory Society of New York State - Provides a forum for the exchange of information and to promote music theory as a scholarly and pedagogical discipline. Site also contains membership and scholarship information as well as open calls for papers.
Music Worksheets - Downloadable worksheets for elementary and middle school students.
The Musical Intervals Tutor - Offers interactive music intervals and self-testing.
The Musical Octave - Thomas Váczy Hightower's study of musical scales. Discuses the meta-physical properties of music and the creation of musical scales from an acoustic and mathematical perspective.
Nuottila - Online ear training fundamentals site. [Requires Java]
Pattern Thinking in Music - Offers visual aid to recognizing musical patterns occurring in melody, harmony and rhythm. Provides online demonstration; requires download.
Polytempo Music Articles - Articles by John Greschak. Includes an annotated bibliography of polytempo music.
Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net - Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
SchenkerGuide - An introduction to Schenkerian analysis for undergraduate music students. Includes background, working method, glossary and bibliography.
Schoen Musical Notation - Julius Schoens alternative to traditional musical notation, has music notation documents, reference, and discussion.
Sight-Reading Rhythmic Patterns - Rhythmic exercises with accompanying MIDI files.
Simplified Music Chord Theory - Explains scales and building chords from them.
Skytopia: Music and Art Aesthetics - Author's overview of how every piece of music, every sound, and every picture can be rated on its own merits outside (as well as inside) human opinion.
Society for Music Theory - Includes a database of journal article from the SMT Journal.
Solomon's Music Resources - Resources for composers, music theorists, and researchers of music, with sound files, papers and compositions.
Star Theory - Free preparatory syllabus in music theory and orchestration.
Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics - A group within the Acoustical Society of America, that concerns itself with the application of science and technology to the field of music. Contains members, a list of papers, acousticians and links.
Teoria - Includes software, books, exercises, and links.
Theory on the Web - Intermediate music theory review for college students.
The Tonal Centre - Interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation.
Tonality Guide - Fundamentals of tonality and music theory created as an online teaching tool with written and aural examples.
8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept - Information with mp3 files, an introduction to the "diminished-major" and its applications.
VCU Music Theory Resources - Music theory and ear training resources from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Visualizing Music: A Model of Harmony - Visual model of music which geometrically describes relationships in harmony.
What is Music - Solving a Scientific Mystery - Provide information on the book by Philip Dorrell which explains a new scientific theory about music: the super-stimulus theory.
WholeArts - Music Conservatory - Introductory dialogue for courses in music theory and composition.

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Dolmetsch.com/theoryindex Index to music theory and history topics http://davesmey.com/theory/ Freshman theory resources, SMTP Capistrano Elementary Great website from an elementary school which explains all the basic Theory exercises and lessons from Duke Musicianship Quickfacts An incredibly concise collection of info for reference Basic Music Test A practice test similar to our Freshman Theory Placement Test Introduction to Music Theory and Aural Skills (a programmed course) Free Music Theory Workbook Donald in Mathmagic land Part 1 Donald in Mathmagic Land Part 2 Set finder Matrix generator Basic Rules for Species Counterpoint Melodic organization and devices Illustrated with real musi Melodic Contour with listening excerpt Mozart cells for composition ideas Nonharmonic Tones Real music examples http://www.colleges.org/~music/theory/15N.html Neighboring tones, escape tones, appoggiaturas in .swf Principles of melody http://www.tonalityguide.com/tkembellishing.php Decorative pitches (melodic embellishments) MusicTheory.net lessons: Nonharmonic tones How to develop a melody Nonharmonic tones Augmentation, diminution, inversion, retrograde Phrases and cadences Phrases and cadences Picardy thirds in flash Sequences excerpts in flash or pdf Sequence Key signatures and other related fears Scales and modes Aural recognition in real music Scale degrees Illustrated in real music Scale degree games Scales and modes Build a major scale MusicTheory.net lessons: Major scales MusicTheory.net lessons: Minor scales Major & minor scales in classical excerpts MusicTheory.net lessons: Scale degrees Church modes Octatonic scale Jazz Keys Scales and chords on a virtual piano Teoria Drills in clef reading, intervals, scales, key signatures, chords Keyboard Flash shows staff & octave designation Piano Mouse Online drill to identify notes in bass and treble clef Basic notation explained Treble clef flashcards Bass clef flashcards Alto clef flashcards Diagram of genesis of grand staff Octave registers Notecard Free software to download which teaches proficiency in reading notes in both clefs Mensural Notation Modulation Types A handy table for step-by-step analysis http://courses.wcupa.edu/abauer/modtypes.htm Modulation by diminished 7th Modulation by augmented 6ths Modulation by Neapolitan Miscellaneous Texture Great page with midi examples for each type Texture, aural recognition Illustrated with real music	The Amazing Chord Keyboard Chord Keyboard in minor Chord spelling Chords Table of chord functions for musical analysis Chord qualities Illustrated in real music Chord Calculator Suspensions Figured Bass in a nutshell Circle progressions Common chord progressionsl Harmonic function and progression Modulation Chord identification and labeling Secondary dominants Secondary dominants, aural recognition Illustrated in real music Basic rules of harmonic progression Harmonic progressions Cadences Sound files real music illustrate cadence types http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/html/id60_en.html When to use triads in first inversion http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/html/id61_en.html When to use triads in second inversion 6/4 chords MusicTheory.net lessons: Triad inversions MusicTheory.net lessons: Diatonic triads MusicTheory.net lessons: Intro to Roman Numeral Analysis MusicTheory.net lessons: Roman numeral analysis of "Oh Canada" MusicTheory.net lessons: Roman numeral analysis of "Auld Lang Syne" http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/html/id40_en.html Building chords by intervals - M, m, d, A Mode mixture Borrowed chords Hilarious song http://www.colleges.org/~music/theory/mixture.html Modal mixture and borrowed chords excerpts in .swf http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/html/id50_en.html Interchanging diatonic chords from the minor scales Augmented 6ths/Neapolitans Neapolitan 6th explanation and examples http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/html/id120_en.html Building Neapolitan chords http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/html/id121_en.html Using Neapolitan chords http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/html/id122_en.html Neapolitan analysis - excerpt from Moonlight Sonata http://www.colleges.org/~music/theory/neapolitan.html Neapolitan examples in .swf, .pdf. & .mov http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/html/id45_en.html Intro to 7th chords http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/html/id46_en.html Diatonic 7th chords - analyze each type in a scale http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/html/id47_en.html 7th Chord Inversions Dominant 7th chords, speed quizzes Seventh Chords 7th chord identification drill Harmonic dictation Real music Intervals aural recognition Illustrated in real music MusicTheory.net lessons: Intervals calculated by half-steps MusicTheory.net lessons: Intervals, enharmonic mistakes MusicTheory.net lessons: Interval inversions MusicTheory.net lessons: M, m, d, A intervals Principles of part-writing Partwriting Part-writing Quick Reference Guidelines Voicing chords writing chords in each inversion Voice-leading How to Harmonize a melody in 4 parts Aural recognition of meters Real music Art Levine rhythms 2 measure rhythm patterns, Brazilian origin, for rhythm practice or ostinato http://www.omnidisc.com/MUSIC/TY/TY1.html Hear and identify meters from excerpts Odd meter Simple/compound meter irregular meter Simple and compound meter Form Binary Form

Nuottila Big Ears Use to drill musical intervals Musictheory.net Excellent practice in drills and ear-training. Musictheory.net chord section includes aural drill in recognizing all types of 7th chords (2484!) http://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/etg/et_guide.html melodic dictation exercises http://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/courses/aural/m265/ more melodic dictation	Good Ear On-line ear-training exercises Dictation Dictation drill in rhythm, bass line and melody Teoria Ear-training exercises Music/Ear Midi-based ear-training guide MusicMemoryDevices List of songs to remember intervals Analytical Listening
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Video review of Form Stephen Lias Quick Guide to Musical Forms Tim Foxon Sonata form Theme and variations Rondo Fugue Form Form basics in order of size of section Variation and rondo form Analysis http://www.hindson.com.au download a free figured-bass font	Textures and accompaniment types Working with young composers Jazz improvisation Primer 10 Technical Blunders Songwriters Make http://cathedral.monroestreet.com/index.php Interactive composition of contemporary sounds Poems Poems in public domain for lyrics Finale Page Finale tips and instructions related to specific courses

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Online Software

Theory Text

Notes, Keys and Scales

Rhythm Drills:

Triads

Inversions

Intervals:

Cadences

Progressions

Bach Tips

Part Writing

Non Harmonic Tones

Secondary Dominants

Interesting Chord Formations

Form

Listening

Ear Training

Film Scoring

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